“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
Our entire family loves Calvin & Hobbes.
Our complete series of the comic strip is very well worn with some pages stuck together due to chocolate milk spit out in glee at the hi-jinx of Calvin & Hobbes. We continuously loop through the 3 massive books. It is a now a ritual to read a little at the start and end of the day. (And sometimes more around lunch) We never tire of it.
Bill Watterson is not only a talented artist, he is also a tremendously gifted writer. He manages to capture in the form of a daily comic panel, the purity and total complexity of being a kid. Calvin’s interactions with bullies, his crush/enmity for neighbor Susie Derkins, his attempts to escape this world into one of his own design, his efforts to try to understand his parents- all of these sub-themes continue to resonate in our family, nearly twenty years after the strip ceased publication.
And there’s social and political commentary, too, that’s years ahead of its time. Many of Watterson’s strips, you would swear were written in the last two years. They are perfectly on target.
We also love, and commend, Watterson’s decision to withhold licensing of Calvin&Hobbes. This means that our young readers can simply enjoy the comic in its purest form. We’re not picturing the movie-version of Calvin, or hearing Hobbes on TV, or sleeping on a Calvin pillowcase.
Then rather than drag Calvin out into a sad retread of the same strips, Watterson pulled the plug, after less than ten-years worth of Calvin’s adventures. We also recognize his commitment to the integrity of his work.
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